Language and morality : evolution, altruism, and linguistic moral mechanisms
This thesis inquires into how human language relates to morality – and shows the ways language enables, extends, and maintains human value systems. Though we ultimately need to view the relation between language and morality from many different perspectives – biological, psychological, sociological,...
Main Author: | Poulshock, Joseph W. |
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University of Edinburgh
2006
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.660710 |
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